Locating Nordic Noir: from beck to the bridge

Abstract

Viewers of the Danish-Swedish television crime serial The Bridge (2011-18) will have noticed the central importance of its specific location to the crime plot and, perhaps, to the overall attraction and mood of the serial.The opening scene of the first season takes place on the iconic bridge connecting Denmark and Sweden.The killer has placed a body (which turns out to be two halves of bodies belonging to a Swedish politician and a Danish prostitute) exactly on the half-way point between the two Scandinavian nations.On the bridge, a Swedish and Danish police officer must find a way to work together across different personalities, languages and national borders in order to catch a killer who seemingly respects no social, moral or geographical boundaries.The authors of Locating Nordic Noir call this serial a 'meta-Nordic Noir series' as it makes use of and comments on a host of traits now commonly associated with the contemporary media phenomenon of Nordic Noir.The Bridge draws on an already established and popular mode of televisual storytelling, recognizable to viewers both inside and outside of the Nordic

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